I am stunned that Carrie Fisher, at 60, passed away after having a heart attack on Friday during a flight from London to Los Angeles.
When I wrote about her previous to this, I was under the impression after her mother, the actress Debbie Reynolds, said she was in stable condition, that she was on the road to recovery.
I guess it was wishful thinking on my part, while reading Wishful Drinking on hers.
I’m here with her latest memoir, The Princess Diarist, in my lap like it’s a holy oracle since, these were her last words, on paper at least.
I spoke of her frankness, the way she told you everything personal without holding anything back.
How when she and her brother, Todd, were small, missed their mother so much who spent hours at work too exhausted to be much of a mom when she got home, to be close to her, they’d sleep in her bedroom…Carrie on the floor, Todd curled up in a window seat.
She openly tells of her chronic depression, finally diagnosed as bipolar allowing you to see the horrors on one side, with hope on the other.
She unabashedly talks of her marriage to singer, Paul Simon, and how after arguing before getting on a plane said to him, if the plane crashes, you’ll be sorry, and he said, maybe not.
I laughed even though it wasn’t very funny, but because she found humor, I had permission to find it too.
Carrie poked fun at everything except Billie, her daughter, she said was perfect. 
I’m sad.
After spending the Christmas weekend with her reading, I feel loss.
Princess Leia, alas, is no more. 
SB
I read Wishful Drinking a few months ago but haven’t read The Princess Diarist yet. I think her death, as so many other celebrity deaths this year, was a shock to all! ~Elle
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Read Shockaholic…it’s the one in between.
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I’ll put that on my list! Thanks!
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Terrible. So sad
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I truly thought she’d get well…sigh
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How awful. Poor woman
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I feel for her mother since you’re not supposed to outlive your children, her daughter and Gary, her bulldog she was never without apparently.
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The news (if you can believe news) did say that she was stable and they expected a recovery. However, the body was tired. RIP.
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Sounded as if she went through a lot from the time she was very young. Her heart I guess just gave way. So sad…so very sad.
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Susannah, I was shocked, too. It sounded like she was recovering and doing well. And she seemed fine in her interview last week. Another lesson that we should always live life to the fullest, because you never know when your time is up.
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Agreed Skinny. The heart is a lonely hunter as they say and when it wants out doesn’t give much warning. After reading a lot of what she’s written, if you peek inside her humor, pain leaks like a slow drip. She had many good things happen to her and just as many falls. I keep thinking about her and what she’d think to know she made the front of The New York Post.
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Debbie Reynolds passed away a day after her daughter. That is just heartbreaking. So, so sad.
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I know. I’m going to blog on it. I feel I need to. God. How bizarre.
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I’m just tired of 2016 taking away all the icons of my generation. After hearing Debbie’s statement I too thought she would recover … false hope hits hard.
I thought of you the second I heard the news knowing you were reading her work.
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It’s uncanny I’ve just read two of her books going for a third.
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Very!! I just woke up to the Debbie Reynolds news.
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I know. I know.
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It is a shock, and I just read where Debbie Reynolds has been hospitalized. I had a feeling this was going to be too much for her mother’s heart.
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Well you were right because she’s gone too. Amazing.
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I know! it is amazing.
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Yes, it truly is.
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And I just read that Debby Reynolds died. So sad.
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Just don’t know what to say. A week ago all was well. A lesson to us all.
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And now Debbie, too. It’s all too much to contemplate, thinking of what Todd and Billie must be dealing with now. Oh the grief. 2016 please just end! :O(
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I just woke up not knowing and read it. I’m sitting in Starbucks stunned. Really. How amazing is that? I guess she couldn’t take losing her only daughter. I mean it’s incredible and you’re right, that poor family.
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We’ve lost so many “greats” in 2016. That mother and daughter should fall on consecutive days is just plain weird.
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You said it.
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